Bot vs firm verdict
London Breakout cBot vs prop firms, which actually pass?
Range-breakout cBot for the London open, distributed free via the cTrader Algo community since 2018.
Verdict matrix
Firm-by-firm: passes, busts, or untested.
Low trade frequency means 7-profitable-days in 30 is tight, months with quiet London opens fall short. Drawdown profile itself is fine.
No min-profitable-days requirement on FTMO Phase 1; static 10% DD absorbs the occasional whipsaw day. Reaching 10% target depends on month-to-month London volatility.
Pending relaunch.
Apex is futures; cBot runs on cTrader. Not a meaningful matchup.
3-profitable-days requirement at ≥0.5% per session, achievable in active months but the strategy frequently has 2-week dry stretches.
No min-days requirement; 6% trailing DD wide enough for breakout-style volatility. 6% target reachable with active London months.
About London Breakout cBot
The strategy in plain English.
The London Breakout cBot trades the first 1-hour range of the London session, buys above the range high, sells below the range low, with stops on the opposite side. It's a textbook strategy that gets re-published by every prop-firm influencer because the logic is easy to teach. Real-money track records are mixed: low frequency means low daily P&L variance (good for consistency rules) but also long stretches of nothing happening (bad for min-profitable-days quotas).
Track-record source we replayed: https://ctrader.com/algos
How we verified this
Where the London Breakout cBot verdict comes from.
Authored and reviewed by Ryan Tran, Strategy Lead, Glitch Executor. Ryan owns the firm-rule engine that produced every verdict on this page.
- The replayed track record is publicly traceable: https://ctrader.com/algos
- No paid placements, we do not accept money to include or rank a strategy here.
- Verdicts re-run every quarter against the current firm rule set. Last verified: .
- Glitch Executor is tooling, not a managed-account or signal vendor. Use this page to inform your own pre-flight, not as a recommendation to trade London Breakout cBot.
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FAQ
Common questions about London Breakout cBot and prop firms.
Which prop firms does London Breakout cBot pass?
London Breakout cBot passes 2 of 4 testable firms in the current audit: FTMO Phase 1, GetLeveraged Turbo. The verdict matrix above shows the full per-firm breakdown including soft failures and untested matchups.
What is the biggest rule risk for London Breakout cBot?
No hard rule breaches in the latest audit. Soft failures (missing profit target or profitable-day quotas) are the remaining risk; see the verdict matrix.
Where does the data behind this verdict come from?
We replayed London Breakout cBot's publicly-traceable track record (https://ctrader.com/algos) through the same firm-rule engine that powers Glitch Executor's backtest verdicts and live breach detection. No paid placements; verdicts are reproducible from public data.
Can I run London Breakout cBot on a Glitch Executor account?
Glitch Executor is tooling for tracking and pre-flighting strategies, not a signal vendor or marketplace. You can upload your own MT5 statement or Myfxbook CSV into the Library to get the same per-firm verdict for your real trading history, including London Breakout cBot if you have your own track record.
When is this verdict next re-verified?
Verdicts are re-replayed during the quarterly firm-rule audit. This page's verdict was last verified on 2026-05-16. Firm-rule changes flagged by the public pricing watcher trigger an out-of-cycle update when they invalidate a verdict.
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